Airway Management

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The most common cause of an airway obstruction is: facial trauma, infections, tissue damage, the tongue

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the tongue

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The airway adjunct that is used for an unresponsive patient who has a gag reflex is the:

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Nasopharyngeal airway (NPA)

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The airway adjunct that is used for an unresponsive patient who does NOT have a gag reflex is:

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Oropharyngeal airway

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When opening an infant's airway, it is helpful if the EMT: places a towel under the infant's head, over flexes the infant's neck, only performs a jaw-thrust, places a towel under the infant's shoulders

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places a towel under the infant's shoulders

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How do you open the airway of a person who does NOT have a suspected spinal injury?

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head-tilt, chin-lift

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In order to properly check a victim for breathing, you should do ALL of the following EXCEPT: feel for air movement out of the mouth or nose, look for the chest to rise as they breathe, listen for air movement out of the mouth or nose.

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re-position the head of the victim until the chest rises

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The correct way to place an OPA in a child victim would be:

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right side up, with the tongue held down with a tongue depressor until it rests in the correct position

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All of the following are special considerations in the airway management of elderly patients EXCEPT: sunken cheeks and lost teeth can affect airway placement and mask seals, jaw-thrust maneuver may need to be used more often because of higher spinal injury risk, the neck and jaw may not move as easily because of arthritis

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lower blood volume in the body requires higher concentrations of oxygen through the mask

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The process of breathing in and out is most appropriately called: ventilation, minute volume, aspiration, respiration

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ventilation

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By using a pocket face mask with a one-way barrier device in mouth-to-mouth ventilation, you can do all of the following EXCEPT: add protection against transmissible diseases, maintain the patient's head position, use both hands to make a seal.

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cut the rate of ventilation by at least half